THE BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT NOT HAPPEN

“I believe Palm can survive as an independent company.”

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, less than a week before selling out to Hewlett-Packard, Financial Times, 22 April 2010

OUR PRIVACY POLICY: IT ONLY LOOKS SCARY

“While it looks super-scary and certainly sucks for those few people who were affected, and is embarrassing to us, it’s a lot less bad than it looks.”

Blippy cofounder Philip Kaplan, on learning that his financial oversharing service handled credit-card numbers, too, VentureBeat, 23 April 2010

OVERSHARING IS CARING

“We think that many things used to be private only because there was no way to share them.”

Blippy cofounder Philip Kaplan, better known for creating workplace-gossip oversharing site FuckedCompany.com, on making it easy for people to confess their shopping sprees, Bits, 22 April 2010

THE WORLD IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND

“We could make it work as a stand-alone business, or it might turn out that there are other companies that would find us valuable. The future is rosy.”

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who’s talked away at least two potential investors in his attempts to make money from his online check-in service, New York magazine, 18 April 2010

RENDER UNTO STEVE THE THINGS THAT ARE STEVE’S

“It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is currently in possession of a device that belongs to Apple. This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple. Please let me know where to pick up the unit.”

Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell, finding himself in the unusual role of corporate lost-and-found department in order to retrieve an iPhone prototype from mischievous gadget bloggers, Gizmodo, 19 April 2010